Video: A.V. Undercover 2013: Alpine covers Radiohead

Video: A.V. Undercover 2013: Alpine covers Radiohead:







Australian sextet Alpine just released its first album: A Is For Alpine is a dreamy, floaty, and gorgeous set of electronic-assisted pop. The band's two singers, Phoebe Baker and Lou James, bring a sweetness to Radiohead's "Just" that Thom Yorke probably wouldn't have imagined, but it works—especially since guitarist Christian O'Brien brings all the growl and nastiness of the original. Alpine is just finishing up a U.S. tour, with a stop in Cambridge, MA tonight, and New York's Webster Hall tomorrow.

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Music: Great Job, Internet!: "Personal Yeezus" is an almost perfect mashup of Kanye West, Depeche Mode

Music: Great Job, Internet!: "Personal Yeezus" is an almost perfect mashup of Kanye West, Depeche Mode:







The second Kanye West named his new album Yeezus, it became Internet inevitable that a mashup of one of the album's tracks and Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" would eventually exist. Thankfully, with West's new industrial-tinged songs like "Black Skinhead" and Depeche Mode's sick beats, the product actually turned out pretty excellent. Buzzfeed calls it "your new favorite song," and, for once, that grandiose hyperbole might actually prove true.

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t-leafd:The Batman Theme Played By Sounds From Actual Bats

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The Batman Theme Played By Sounds From Actual Bats:

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The Batman Theme Played By Sounds From Actual Bats

Louis Armstrong on keeping up his chops

Louis Armstrong on keeping up his chops:
In 1964, when they were teenagers at New Trier High School near Chicago, Michael Aisner and James Stein interviewed Louis Armstrong backstage at one of his concerts. In his boxers.

You can't take it for granted. Even if we have two, three days off I still have to blow that horn a few hours to keep up the chops. I mean I've been playing 50 years, and that's what I've been doing in order to keep in that groove there.

Aisner also interviewed Muhammed Ali a couple years later.
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HONK! Fest, YES!!!

HONK! Fest, YES!!!:
HONK! Fest honked out all weekend, with marching bands making people happy from the streets of Georgetown to Gas Works Park to SAM to the Columbia City Theater. Friday night highlights included Soundwave doing Macklemore, with a lady wearing dayglo orange REALLY enjoying it, and a deafeningly awesome battle of the bands between Portland's Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers and the Seahawks Blue Thunder Drumline. Verdict on the battle: Blue Thunder was more fun, but LRSD is who we'll want out in front when the revolution comes.

The Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers at the Seattle Art Museum on Sunday: not as loud as under the overpass in Georgetown on Friday night—two members of the drumline completely battered through their drumheads—but still loud.

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Bat Country Performs Leonard Cohen's "The Future"

Bat Country Performs Leonard Cohen's "The Future":
Please enjoy the live video of Seattle's best noir-country, neo-cabaret band
Bat Country performing Leonard Cohen's "The Future" at their final show and album release at Columbia City Theater on June 15, 2013. Read the wonderful (and bittersweet) history of the group here. Their new album, Love's the Only Engine of Survival is a pretty triumphant finale, and is out now.

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Music: Great Job, Internet!: Watch a London stadium crowd sing along to "Bohemian Rhapsody"

Music: Great Job, Internet!: Watch a London stadium crowd sing along to "Bohemian Rhapsody":







Emirates Stadium, home to Arsenal Football Club in London, hosts plenty of concerts in the offseason during the summer. At Green Day’s record-setting concert (due to a new stadium configuration) on June 1, the capacity crowd waited for the band to appear, and whoever ran the soundtrack over the PA system was a genius, because they played Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” leading to a massive sing-along. One concertgoer up in the stands recorded most of the spontaneous event, but the roar from the crowd throughout the song shows just how its popularity has endured today. Apparently the reaction was better than openers Kaiser Chiefs and All Time Low received, but up against a Freddie Mercury classic, that's not hard to believe. [via Reddit]

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